Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Start where you are, use what you have.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

If you have anything to tell me of importance for God's sake begin at the end.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.